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Chicago examiner Chicago march 27 1 91 3 vol xi no 82 a m thursday thursday registered in . u s patent office \ price one cent Â°â„¢ & ggfc fire adds to dayton's death list six hundred bodies are reco vered famine now threatens survivors first eye-witness story of flood describesthe horrors and tragedies of disaster women and children swept from houses and boats and men lose lives in the work of rescue when raging torrent of water hits city wives and mothers weep in suspense for those missing toledo 0 march 26 â€” the story of what really happened during two nights and a day in dayton is slowly being told by relatives of the supposed dead and the exhausted rescuers and the prostrated victims as they are brought to the places of safety each fragment of the story is a tragedy in itself there is the story of george h schaeffer a rescuer who went out into the flood with a skiff and saved a woman and baby a house that had been torn from its foundation came floating up behind us schaeffer said the woman was frightened i told her there was no danger suddenly she stood up and jumped over with her baby in her arms she went straight down and never came up again then there was ihe horror that bill riley former clerk of the united states court at cincinnati and now a salesman for the national cash regis ter company saw himself we saw a very old woman standing at the window of a house waiting for rescue said riley we rowed up to it suddenly the house parted and the woman mit was engulfed that was the last we saw of her floats away in home then there was the man who nearly rescued had stepped into the skiff and then walked back into his home which a short time later floated away with him and the story of the negro mother who was being rowed to safety with her two babies when the skiff struck a tree and the little craft capsized the babies were drowned the mother was rescued by robert burnham the owner of the skiff only to die before she reached the hospital john scott an employe of the national register company who came recently from butte mont ascended a telegraph pole and guided across the cable to places of safety men women and children rescued from flooded houses it would have seemed so real if presented in a melodrama this method of bridging a flood but here was done in the presence of hundreds who stood at safe spots appalled by the imminence of danger scott had guided a dozen persons across the swaying bridge of wires when the explosion that started the fire occurred and the shock knocked scott from the pole and he fell into a tree rescuer is burned the last i saw of him he was trying to get into the window of an itbandoned house by way of one of the branches of the tree said frank stevens a fellow employe of scott the house was in the path of the flre one woman has been marooned on top of a moving van in the middle of the roadway since 10 o'clock tuesday morning she and two men were attempting to cross the flood in the moving van when the vehicle tipped one of the men was thrown out and drowned the other got on the horse and although swept away is thought to have reached safety what is your name asked the registerer who received refugees at the national cash register plant of a slender person in men's clothing norma thuma was the reply norma he asked yes i'm a girl was the answer she had put on man's clothes in order to cross the perilous span of wires unhampered by skirts norma came in with ralph myers his wife and their little baby myers had climbed the pole first he let down a rope to his wife who tied to it a meal sack which contained their baby three months old myers pulled the rope with its precious burden up and then let it down again to aid his wife to ascend with the meal sack over his shoulder and his wife behind him myers holding onto two thin wires walked across the cable a full block before he reached safety finds lost husband there was brought from the flood last night mrs james cassidy and her three children mrs cassidy was grief-atricken over the report of the death of her husband by drowning even as she was being registered there was brought into headquarters a man who had to be held up and who was very wet jim shrieked the woman that's you â€” it's you â€” you aren't dead say you aren't dead jim had been rescued from drowning the return of james cassidy was the one bit of joy in the awful gloom at the rescue headquarters where gathered the vtctims of flood flre and famine a woman maddened by the sorrows of the day fought with bill riley and his companion charles wagner who had rescued her in a boat she bit riley in the hand and choked wagner who sought to restrain her the little boat swayed and was on the point of capsizing when the woman sud denly became calm and began to pray a woman with three children marooned in the upper floor of her home i on the edge of the business district called to the oarsmen oh i know you can't take me off she cried but please take this loaf of bread and jug of molasses to sarah pruyn down the street i know she's i starving twice the boatmen attempted to take the food but waves that eddied about'tl^e submerged house hurled them back farther on in the exclusive residence district they were offered fabu lous sums for rescue by many of the flood's prisoners their narrative in spired an effort late this afternoon to launch a boat for navigating on the i first list of the dead additional names will be published as fast as received the examiner will furnish any information in its possession to relatives and friends call main 5000 and ask for flood in formation department dayton saetell anton grocer vine and main streets killed in explosion saetell mrs anton drowned woman unidentified found hanging on wire bish john drowned bish mrs aged 65 mother of john drowned bish florence aged 27 drowned bish viola drowned bish mrs john drowned lanker , patrloman drowned in rescue work rambo frank chief of fire depart ment drowned hadkins john militiaman hosay james militiaman delaware milligan , wife and child melching frank melching mrs frank melching ralph six years old melching lewis four years old smith mrs sila her two sons aged seven and eight and year-old daughter jones esther fifteen years old jones mrs sam dunlap hazel twenty-two years old slosson mrs hessey william fielding william maine james eighty years old quirk mrs m'auliff terry bills bills mrs and three children columbus sexton william a probation of ficer daniel edwin d gore albert mail carrier hayes e m and wife cool mrs geofige and baby mack mrs l h and three chil dren eckert george wife and seven children brighton dike george of toledo in wreck i caused by flood shanklin wm of massillon in wreck caused by flood burr fred of massillon in wreck caused by flood hamilton m'roberts n c child odell - â€” tiemann herman lutzi leon tiffin knecht jacob and family of eight . klingshirn george and family of four smith ville erbe frank fell into a cellar drowned funk o riddle john boat overturned drowned toledo gilman william s watchman drowned in maumee river barberton o newman john fremont o saller frank aged 21 mansfield o wise howard child gov cox of ohio fears that whole cities are wiped out f olumbus ohio march 26 the follow ing statement of the ohio flood situation was issued by governor cox at 11 o'clock to-night the exact extent of the appalling flood in ohio is still unknown every hour impresses us with the uncertainty of the situation the waters have assumed such unknown heights in many parts of the state that it will hardly be less than a miracle if villages and towns are not wiped out of existence in the southern and southeastern parts of ohio the storm is moving south of east columbus was the center of all activities in behalf of the stricken cities every hour has apparently been filled with an accumulation of dramatic circumstances piteous appeals have been made by men who were surrounded by water and confronted by the approaching con flagration in the city of dayton every human energy has been exerted to give relief and yet the measure of assistance has been com paratively small it is the belief however that by daylight to-morrow those imprisoned in the business sections of dayton can be relieved the day began by a storm signal from the weather bureau advising ihat there would be a dangerous rise in the waters f the muskingum river all the towns along its course including zanesville and marietta were advised before noon the situation assumed a critical aspect at zanesville and the historic y bridge was blown up with dynamite the loss of life in zanesville is uncertain because all telephone communication ceased at noon marietta lies farther south on the ohio river it cannot be reached but it is safe to assume that the same devastating results at zanesville were carried on to marietta a flood situation developed in the mau mee and sandusky valleys in northwestern ohio but the damage to life and property was nothing compared with that in the south the one great tragedy remains â€” the day ton situation in many respects it is absolutely without parallel in the history of the republic north dayton reported early a loss of 100 lives eater precisely the same situation was reported from riverdale west dayton was almost completely under water and the houses in edgemont a residential section were so deep in the flood that great destruction of lif e and prop erty has certainly ensued there on the high lands of south park and east dayton pockets have been developed and people were drowned on apparent elevations where it would seem naturally impossible the water at fifth and brown streets which is twenty-five or thirty feet above the elevation in the business section was reported ten feet deep at this time a river wild and turbulent four miles wide is sweeping through the busi ness section of dayton to say nothing of the overflow in the residential section i telephone communication was established before the day was over with four points in the city the intrepid bell telephone operator re ported first that he had sent scouts into the dif ferent parts of the city by boat his belief at 3,000 dead in flood area dayton swept by flames city believed to be doomed thousands are trapped piqua also is burning down people are fleeing 100 persons trapped in gem city apartment and all are thought to have perished in blaze thieves are looting bodies soldiers told to shoot rhe examiner is still unable to vouch for the figures given as to the total number of dead in the flood area com munication by telegraph and telephone is spasmodic correct figures would not be obtainable even if communication were un interrupted only the recession of the toaters and subsequent search will reveal the extent of the calamity the examiner has an army of special and staff correspondents on the ground xoho are sending all the news and reports received they will record the exact figures and send names the first moment that these are obtainable bulletin toledo 0 march 26 â€” the lewiston res ervoir broke late to-night it is reported the st mary's reservoir is within one foot of breaking it is feared many lives have been lost phoneton 0 six miles from dayton march 26 dayton is a mass of flames the fire can be seen miles away the city swept by the flood is said to be doomed hundreds are trapped in the city in their homes and in hotels and have no chance of escape it is reported governor cox of ohio gave ont a report based on information from his private secretary whom he sent to the stricken city that the loss of life would reach 2,000 it is stated that there are at least 3,000 and probably more dead throughout the state the fire is increasing rapidly three of the hotels in dayton are ablaze and numerous buildings burning a message to governor cox late to-night stated that fire was raging unchecked the message said sparks were flying over the city and that i there is imminent danger to the inundated portion of the city | boats are being sent boats brought in from springfield to-night were powerless against i the strong currents the message said at 3 30 o'clock governor cox re ceived telephone word from chief operator john a bell at the bell tele phone exchange in dayton that the fire raging in the flooded business section had leaped across third street and was sweeping the next block the governor received word via springfield that 10,000 to 12,000 per sons were in the burning buildings fighting the fire by water lifted in buckets from the flood one hundred persons were caught in a burning apartment building and all are believed to have perished major smith in command of the state national guard has declared the city under martial law the militiamen have a number of boats and rafts are being constructed in order to reach the business center of the city major smith sent a request to adjutant general wood at columbus for more troops piqua is on fire and the flames there are plainly visible fiqua re ported a heavy death loss which has up to to-night been unconfirmed the lewiston reservoir is breaking and is expected to collapse at any moment there is absolutely no chance for the walls to hold said a corre spondent over the long distance telephone everything is in a chaotic state here , will flood many cities when the great volume of water is released it will pour into the valley flooding shelby and miami counties piqua and troy already deluged are directly in the path of the new danger and it is considered a foregone conclusion that a great additional loss of life will result from the new onslaught of the elements the sweep of the water is also ex pected to add to the terrors of the dayton holocaust according to word received it is almost certain that the dead at piqua will exceed 00 many estimates place the number far above this figure dr f c clark of this city who made a miraculous escape from being drowned at piqua arrived here late this afternoon nearly fran tic from his harrowing experiences dr clark as rescued from a piqua hotel along with others rowed to the railroad tracks in a boat and ran rapidly in the direction of his city three thousand of the homeless were housed in different place at continued on 2d page sth column continued on sth page 4th column continued on 2d page 6th column 6 a m extra want a job ? the kind that pay good wages are advertised in the help wanted columns of the examiner every day read these ads if you want to better your condition in life extra

Chicago examiner Chicago march 27 1 91 3 vol xi no 82 a m thursday thursday registered in . u s patent office \ price one cent Â°â„¢ & ggfc fire adds to dayton's death list six hundred bodies are reco vered famine now threatens survivors first eye-witness story of flood describesthe horrors and tragedies of disaster women and children swept from houses and boats and men lose lives in the work of rescue when raging torrent of water hits city wives and mothers weep in suspense for those missing toledo 0 march 26 â€” the story of what really happened during two nights and a day in dayton is slowly being told by relatives of the supposed dead and the exhausted rescuers and the prostrated victims as they are brought to the places of safety each fragment of the story is a tragedy in itself there is the story of george h schaeffer a rescuer who went out into the flood with a skiff and saved a woman and baby a house that had been torn from its foundation came floating up behind us schaeffer said the woman was frightened i told her there was no danger suddenly she stood up and jumped over with her baby in her arms she went straight down and never came up again then there was ihe horror that bill riley former clerk of the united states court at cincinnati and now a salesman for the national cash regis ter company saw himself we saw a very old woman standing at the window of a house waiting for rescue said riley we rowed up to it suddenly the house parted and the woman mit was engulfed that was the last we saw of her floats away in home then there was the man who nearly rescued had stepped into the skiff and then walked back into his home which a short time later floated away with him and the story of the negro mother who was being rowed to safety with her two babies when the skiff struck a tree and the little craft capsized the babies were drowned the mother was rescued by robert burnham the owner of the skiff only to die before she reached the hospital john scott an employe of the national register company who came recently from butte mont ascended a telegraph pole and guided across the cable to places of safety men women and children rescued from flooded houses it would have seemed so real if presented in a melodrama this method of bridging a flood but here was done in the presence of hundreds who stood at safe spots appalled by the imminence of danger scott had guided a dozen persons across the swaying bridge of wires when the explosion that started the fire occurred and the shock knocked scott from the pole and he fell into a tree rescuer is burned the last i saw of him he was trying to get into the window of an itbandoned house by way of one of the branches of the tree said frank stevens a fellow employe of scott the house was in the path of the flre one woman has been marooned on top of a moving van in the middle of the roadway since 10 o'clock tuesday morning she and two men were attempting to cross the flood in the moving van when the vehicle tipped one of the men was thrown out and drowned the other got on the horse and although swept away is thought to have reached safety what is your name asked the registerer who received refugees at the national cash register plant of a slender person in men's clothing norma thuma was the reply norma he asked yes i'm a girl was the answer she had put on man's clothes in order to cross the perilous span of wires unhampered by skirts norma came in with ralph myers his wife and their little baby myers had climbed the pole first he let down a rope to his wife who tied to it a meal sack which contained their baby three months old myers pulled the rope with its precious burden up and then let it down again to aid his wife to ascend with the meal sack over his shoulder and his wife behind him myers holding onto two thin wires walked across the cable a full block before he reached safety finds lost husband there was brought from the flood last night mrs james cassidy and her three children mrs cassidy was grief-atricken over the report of the death of her husband by drowning even as she was being registered there was brought into headquarters a man who had to be held up and who was very wet jim shrieked the woman that's you â€” it's you â€” you aren't dead say you aren't dead jim had been rescued from drowning the return of james cassidy was the one bit of joy in the awful gloom at the rescue headquarters where gathered the vtctims of flood flre and famine a woman maddened by the sorrows of the day fought with bill riley and his companion charles wagner who had rescued her in a boat she bit riley in the hand and choked wagner who sought to restrain her the little boat swayed and was on the point of capsizing when the woman sud denly became calm and began to pray a woman with three children marooned in the upper floor of her home i on the edge of the business district called to the oarsmen oh i know you can't take me off she cried but please take this loaf of bread and jug of molasses to sarah pruyn down the street i know she's i starving twice the boatmen attempted to take the food but waves that eddied about'tl^e submerged house hurled them back farther on in the exclusive residence district they were offered fabu lous sums for rescue by many of the flood's prisoners their narrative in spired an effort late this afternoon to launch a boat for navigating on the i first list of the dead additional names will be published as fast as received the examiner will furnish any information in its possession to relatives and friends call main 5000 and ask for flood in formation department dayton saetell anton grocer vine and main streets killed in explosion saetell mrs anton drowned woman unidentified found hanging on wire bish john drowned bish mrs aged 65 mother of john drowned bish florence aged 27 drowned bish viola drowned bish mrs john drowned lanker , patrloman drowned in rescue work rambo frank chief of fire depart ment drowned hadkins john militiaman hosay james militiaman delaware milligan , wife and child melching frank melching mrs frank melching ralph six years old melching lewis four years old smith mrs sila her two sons aged seven and eight and year-old daughter jones esther fifteen years old jones mrs sam dunlap hazel twenty-two years old slosson mrs hessey william fielding william maine james eighty years old quirk mrs m'auliff terry bills bills mrs and three children columbus sexton william a probation of ficer daniel edwin d gore albert mail carrier hayes e m and wife cool mrs geofige and baby mack mrs l h and three chil dren eckert george wife and seven children brighton dike george of toledo in wreck i caused by flood shanklin wm of massillon in wreck caused by flood burr fred of massillon in wreck caused by flood hamilton m'roberts n c child odell - â€” tiemann herman lutzi leon tiffin knecht jacob and family of eight . klingshirn george and family of four smith ville erbe frank fell into a cellar drowned funk o riddle john boat overturned drowned toledo gilman william s watchman drowned in maumee river barberton o newman john fremont o saller frank aged 21 mansfield o wise howard child gov cox of ohio fears that whole cities are wiped out f olumbus ohio march 26 the follow ing statement of the ohio flood situation was issued by governor cox at 11 o'clock to-night the exact extent of the appalling flood in ohio is still unknown every hour impresses us with the uncertainty of the situation the waters have assumed such unknown heights in many parts of the state that it will hardly be less than a miracle if villages and towns are not wiped out of existence in the southern and southeastern parts of ohio the storm is moving south of east columbus was the center of all activities in behalf of the stricken cities every hour has apparently been filled with an accumulation of dramatic circumstances piteous appeals have been made by men who were surrounded by water and confronted by the approaching con flagration in the city of dayton every human energy has been exerted to give relief and yet the measure of assistance has been com paratively small it is the belief however that by daylight to-morrow those imprisoned in the business sections of dayton can be relieved the day began by a storm signal from the weather bureau advising ihat there would be a dangerous rise in the waters f the muskingum river all the towns along its course including zanesville and marietta were advised before noon the situation assumed a critical aspect at zanesville and the historic y bridge was blown up with dynamite the loss of life in zanesville is uncertain because all telephone communication ceased at noon marietta lies farther south on the ohio river it cannot be reached but it is safe to assume that the same devastating results at zanesville were carried on to marietta a flood situation developed in the mau mee and sandusky valleys in northwestern ohio but the damage to life and property was nothing compared with that in the south the one great tragedy remains â€” the day ton situation in many respects it is absolutely without parallel in the history of the republic north dayton reported early a loss of 100 lives eater precisely the same situation was reported from riverdale west dayton was almost completely under water and the houses in edgemont a residential section were so deep in the flood that great destruction of lif e and prop erty has certainly ensued there on the high lands of south park and east dayton pockets have been developed and people were drowned on apparent elevations where it would seem naturally impossible the water at fifth and brown streets which is twenty-five or thirty feet above the elevation in the business section was reported ten feet deep at this time a river wild and turbulent four miles wide is sweeping through the busi ness section of dayton to say nothing of the overflow in the residential section i telephone communication was established before the day was over with four points in the city the intrepid bell telephone operator re ported first that he had sent scouts into the dif ferent parts of the city by boat his belief at 3,000 dead in flood area dayton swept by flames city believed to be doomed thousands are trapped piqua also is burning down people are fleeing 100 persons trapped in gem city apartment and all are thought to have perished in blaze thieves are looting bodies soldiers told to shoot rhe examiner is still unable to vouch for the figures given as to the total number of dead in the flood area com munication by telegraph and telephone is spasmodic correct figures would not be obtainable even if communication were un interrupted only the recession of the toaters and subsequent search will reveal the extent of the calamity the examiner has an army of special and staff correspondents on the ground xoho are sending all the news and reports received they will record the exact figures and send names the first moment that these are obtainable bulletin toledo 0 march 26 â€” the lewiston res ervoir broke late to-night it is reported the st mary's reservoir is within one foot of breaking it is feared many lives have been lost phoneton 0 six miles from dayton march 26 dayton is a mass of flames the fire can be seen miles away the city swept by the flood is said to be doomed hundreds are trapped in the city in their homes and in hotels and have no chance of escape it is reported governor cox of ohio gave ont a report based on information from his private secretary whom he sent to the stricken city that the loss of life would reach 2,000 it is stated that there are at least 3,000 and probably more dead throughout the state the fire is increasing rapidly three of the hotels in dayton are ablaze and numerous buildings burning a message to governor cox late to-night stated that fire was raging unchecked the message said sparks were flying over the city and that i there is imminent danger to the inundated portion of the city | boats are being sent boats brought in from springfield to-night were powerless against i the strong currents the message said at 3 30 o'clock governor cox re ceived telephone word from chief operator john a bell at the bell tele phone exchange in dayton that the fire raging in the flooded business section had leaped across third street and was sweeping the next block the governor received word via springfield that 10,000 to 12,000 per sons were in the burning buildings fighting the fire by water lifted in buckets from the flood one hundred persons were caught in a burning apartment building and all are believed to have perished major smith in command of the state national guard has declared the city under martial law the militiamen have a number of boats and rafts are being constructed in order to reach the business center of the city major smith sent a request to adjutant general wood at columbus for more troops piqua is on fire and the flames there are plainly visible fiqua re ported a heavy death loss which has up to to-night been unconfirmed the lewiston reservoir is breaking and is expected to collapse at any moment there is absolutely no chance for the walls to hold said a corre spondent over the long distance telephone everything is in a chaotic state here , will flood many cities when the great volume of water is released it will pour into the valley flooding shelby and miami counties piqua and troy already deluged are directly in the path of the new danger and it is considered a foregone conclusion that a great additional loss of life will result from the new onslaught of the elements the sweep of the water is also ex pected to add to the terrors of the dayton holocaust according to word received it is almost certain that the dead at piqua will exceed 00 many estimates place the number far above this figure dr f c clark of this city who made a miraculous escape from being drowned at piqua arrived here late this afternoon nearly fran tic from his harrowing experiences dr clark as rescued from a piqua hotel along with others rowed to the railroad tracks in a boat and ran rapidly in the direction of his city three thousand of the homeless were housed in different place at continued on 2d page sth column continued on sth page 4th column continued on 2d page 6th column 6 a m extra want a job ? the kind that pay good wages are advertised in the help wanted columns of the examiner every day read these ads if you want to better your condition in life extra